Collection-basket.



A. FURMAN.

COLLECTION BASKET. APPLlcATloN FILED Auw?. 1914.

Patented Nov. 16, 1915.

coLUMBlA vLANuaRAPH-'Ca.. WASHINGTON, u. c.

.ication.

ADALBERT FURMAN, or CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

COLLECTION-BASKET. A

Application led August 8,1914. Serial No. 855,760.

- To all t0/0m t may concern.'

Be it known that I, ADALBERT FUnMAN, a

citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of Chicago,county of Cook,-and

State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inCollection- Baskets, of which the following is a speci- My inventionrelates to improvements in collection baskets such as are used inchurches and like places, and has for its-object the production of adevice of this character from which the coins deposited in the basketmay not be removed except when the basket is properly opened.V

A further ob 'ect is the production `of a collection basket which willbe of durable construction and neat in appearance.

.Other objects will appear hereinafter.

The invention consists in the combinations and arrangements of partshereinafter described and claimed.

The invention will be best understood by reference to the accompanyingdrawing forming a part of this specification, and in which,

Figure 1 is a top plan view of a collection basket embodying myinvention, and Fig. 2 is a central section thereof.

The preferred form of constructiony as illustrated in the drawingcomprises a body or basket 1 provided adjacent its upper edge with alaterally projecting handle socket 2 in which a handle of the lengthdesired is adapted to be inserted. A brace member 3 extends from thebasket 1 to the i handle socket 2 for reinforcing the latter.

Provided at the base of basket 1 is a circular reinforcing wire t andprovided at the mouth of said basket is a circular reinforcing wire 5. 1

Arranged at the open upper end of basket yl is a cover 6 of funnelshape, as shown, which is provided at its periphery with a reinforcingwire 7 and a metallic band 8 secured as by soldering to the periphery ofsaid cover, as shown. One side of cover 6 is hingedly secured to thebasket 1 by means of a hinge 10, the opposite edge -of said cover beingprovided with an outwardly projecting hasp or linger piece 11 adapted,when the cover is in closed position, to extend along the handle socket2 in close proximity with the upper side thereof, as shown in Fig. 2.Projecting from the under side of the hasp -11 is a hooked engag-Specication of Letters Patent.A

Patented Nov. 16,1915.

ing member 12 adapted for coperation Wi th a lock 14 of any conventionaldesign, which is mounted invs'ocket 2.` Said lock is adapted, when inengagement with the member 12, to lock the cover 6in closing position,

opening of said cover being effected only upon turning of the lock todisengage said member 12. The lock is so arranged that the key slotthereof is positioned at the .under side of handle socket 2 so that thepresence y'of a lock in the handle will be unnoticed except uponinversion of the basket. At the bottom of the funnel-shaped cover 6 isprovided the coin admission opening l5 and 'surrounding said opening isa tubular member' 16 secured in position preferably by soldering.Depending from the member 16 are chains 17 which serve to suspend aconica-l coin deflecting member 18 directly belowV the coin admissionopening and spaced from the member 16 so as to permit of the passage `ofthe coins between the lower edge of the latter and the upper side ofsaid deiiecting member.

Vith the arrangement set forth, it will be seen that the coins depositedinto the basket will be guided by the cover, because of the funnelformation thereof, toward the coin admission opening 15, through whichythe same will drop, being deflected by the member 18 into the interiorof the basket. By loosely suspending the coin deflecting member as setforth, upon inversion of the basket, said vdeflecting member will dropto position against the member 16 so as to close the coin admissionopening and prevent the passage of coins therethrough. With thisarrangement then, it will be seen, that surreptitious removal of coinsfrom the basket will be prevented, it being impossible to take the samefrom the basket through inversion of the latter. Hence, with thisVconstruction it will be seen that emptying of the basket may beeffected only upon turning of the lock 14 to unlock the hasp 11 since,when this is done, the cover may be swung upwardly to open the mouth ofthe basket.

While I have illustrated and described'the preferred form ofconstruction for carrying my invention into effect, this is capable ofvariation and modification without departing from the spirit of theinvention. I, therefore, do not wish to be limited to the precisedetails of construction set forth, bu-t desire to avail myself of suchvariations Patent is:

andmodification's as come within the scope of the appended claims. K ,A

aving described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure byLetters suspending said coin deflecting element from said upper side ofthe receptacle7 substantially as described. Y

y 2. A device of the class described comprising a receptacle; anadmission openingin the upper wall of said'receptacle; a conical coindeecting element spaced below said admission opening; and flexibleelements loosely suspending said coinV deflecting element from saidupper wall, substantiallyras described.

' 3'. A device of the class described comprisdescribed` comprislng areceptacle; an admission opening at ing a receptacle having wall, saidYtopV wall having a central admis sion opening; a vcoin delectingelement spaced vbelow said admission ope-ning; and liexible elementsloosely suspending said a funnel-shaped top coin deflectmg element from.said upper wall, substantially as described.

' g4; A device of the class described comprising a receptacle having afunnel-shaped top wall, said top wall having'a central admissionopening; a eofnical'coin defleeting element spaced below said admissionopening; and'iexibl'eelements loosely suspending said coin delectingelement romsaid wall, substantially as described.

ln testimony whereof two subscribing witnesses.` f

l LADALBERT FURMAN.

. Vv'itnesses: Y Y

JOSHUA R. H. PoTTs, HELEN F. LILLIs.

Washington, D. C.

l I have signed myV name to this specification in the presence o-'liCopies of 'this Apatent may be obtained for five cents each, byaddressing the Commssener of Patents,

